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Samsung Begins Mass Production of World's Fastest DRAM (hothardware.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the better-harder-faster-stronger dept.

MojoKid writes: Late last year marked the introduction of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) DRAM courtesy of AMD's Fury family of graphics cards, each of which sports 4GB of HBM. HBM allows these new AMD GPUs to tout an impressive 512GB/sec of memory bandwidth, but it's also just the first iteration of the new memory technology. Samsung has just announced that it has begun mass production of HBM2. Samsung's 4GB HBM2 package is built on a 20 nanometer process. Each package contains four 8-gigabit core dies built on top of a buffer die. Each 4GB HMB2 package is capable of delivering 256GB/sec of bandwidth, which is twice that of first generation HBM DRAM. In the example of NVIDIA's next gen GPU technology, code named Pascal, the new GPU will utilize HBM2 for its frame buffer memory. High-end consumer-grade Pascal boards will ship with 16GB of HBM2 memory (in four, 4GB packages), offering effective memory bandwidth of 1TB/sec (256GB/sec from each HMB2 package). Samsung is also reportedly readying 8GB HBM2 memory packages this year.

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  1. AMwho? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    AMD is now just another ARM maker, they lost the x86x64 war, now they're going to lose the ARM war too (too many competitors in the ARM market), AMD also lost the GPU war.

    Where do AMD belong? The only place I see AMD, is on support forums with people crying things are not working, or they cannot upgrade, my drivers are rubbish or some other broken reason.

    1. Re:AMwho? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      Where do AMD belong?

      Crowed about by delusional fanboys.

      I love those guys. I want them to keep wasting money on inferior products, because like it or not, competition is a very necessary thing. Without AMD, Intel and nVidia would both quickly become fat and lazy.

  2. Re:Go AMD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pity their drivers suck.

    I've bought two AMD GPUs. Both times I've been burned by poor drivers and poor after sales support, even though the hardware itself was quite good. I haven't had the same problem with any of the four nVidia GPUs I've had. Yes I've had bad nVidia drivers at times, and even a defective nVidia card (replaced by vendor) but they were usually fixed pretty quickly, even for older cards. The last driver update for my AMD APU broke all hardware accelerated video decoding, tough luck, that was the final release, no longer supported. Yet every few weeks it still nags me to update to these broken drivers. Try to find out if my APU has windows 10 drivers, I have a 6xxx series GPU. They say 6xxx series cards will have drivers, but my APU is not supported. They say the APU is really a 4xxx series card with a 6xxx series name. How is that my problem? You labelled it a 6 series part, you said you would support 6 series parts in windows 10, release the drivers for it. I know it exists, you released a beta for it. Won't do it for business reasons (read: time for you to buy newer hardware from us).

    Never again AMD.